The Rapids on Sunday moved to 0-2 with a home-opening loss to the Philadelphia Union in Commerce City. But if there’s a bright spot to Colorado’s season so far it’s the play of striker Deshorn Brown and Dillon Powers, both rookie draft picks.

Colorado’s roster this season is significantly younger, after the departures of Conor Casey, Omar Cummings, Jeff Larentowicz, Hunter Freeman and Luis Zapata.

The Rapids continued to juggle their lineup in Seattle, but the result was a fourth loss in five games.

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Seattle — or should that be the Sounders’ Steve Zakuani and Qwest Field — certainly seems to be in the heads of the Colorado Rapids. After Saturday, and despite a questionable offside call that disallowed an Omar Cummings goal, Colorado is still sleepless, er, winless in Seattle.

In a seesaw year for the Rapids — spent mostly in the sand than up in the air — the club looks less like the Western Conference bullies they used to be than a softer version of their former selves — before a crushing Brian Mullan tackle on Zakuani that broke Zakuani’s leg last season. But it’s hard to blame them for it, many would say: A new coach and injuries to key players have the Rapids, if not in rebuilding mode, in wait-and-see mode.

It’s been a big week for the Rapids, on top of the Sounders game that gave fans some closure after Zakuani and Mullan exchanged jerseys after the game, the club also parted ways with fan favorite fullback Kosuke Kimura, who was traded to the Portland Timbers for allocation money and an international player slot. And after dropping their 4th of July game 0-1 to Vancouver where they dominated the run of play for much of the match, the Rapids have more soul searching to do, and head coach Oscar Pareja has more lineup searching to do to find the right mix of players, if it exists.

Daniel was first introduced to soccer at age 6 while living in Düsseldorf, West Germany. He played youth soccer in West Germany until age 9, and then in Seattle, where he is originally from. He works as the day breaking news editor and also contributes on the Rapids beat.